First, came Dr. J, then Bird and Magic, and finally Jordan as the league went from near disaster to a Golden Age. Shaq was next in line, and boy did he deliver.
As we near the NBA Finals let us revisit Charles P. Pierce’s insightful portrait of a young Shaquille O’Neal. “The Next Superstar,” originally published in The New York Times Magazine in November 1992 (and featured in Pierce’s essential collection of sport profiles, Sports
